| rdfs:comment | - Bo Schembechler was head coach at U-M for 21 years, from 1969 to 1989. He was the 15th head coach for U-M football, and his excellent stategy along with very good chemistry with the players led him to be the winningest coach in U-M history, with 194 wins. That win total is 29 more than Fielding Yost's 165, and 72 more than Lloyd Carr's 122. This gave him a win percentage of .796. He never won a national championship, but he started a streak of consecutive bowl games in 1976 that continues today! That is 33 bowl games in a row!(they have not won all of them, that would be way too uncanny) There is a building at U-M named after Bo, called Schembechler Hall.
- Schembechler played college football as a tackle at Miami University, where in 1949 and 1950 he was coached by Woody Hayes, for whom he served as an assistant coach at Ohio State University in 1952 and from 1958 to 1962. In his first ten years at Michigan, Schembechler's teams squared off in a fierce rivalry against Hayes's Buckeyes squads. During that stretch in the Michigan–Ohio State football rivalry, dubbed the "Ten-Year War," Hayes and Schembechler's teams won or shared the Big Ten Conference crown every season and usually each placed in the national rankings.
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| abstract | - Bo Schembechler was head coach at U-M for 21 years, from 1969 to 1989. He was the 15th head coach for U-M football, and his excellent stategy along with very good chemistry with the players led him to be the winningest coach in U-M history, with 194 wins. That win total is 29 more than Fielding Yost's 165, and 72 more than Lloyd Carr's 122. This gave him a win percentage of .796. He never won a national championship, but he started a streak of consecutive bowl games in 1976 that continues today! That is 33 bowl games in a row!(they have not won all of them, that would be way too uncanny) There is a building at U-M named after Bo, called Schembechler Hall.
- Schembechler played college football as a tackle at Miami University, where in 1949 and 1950 he was coached by Woody Hayes, for whom he served as an assistant coach at Ohio State University in 1952 and from 1958 to 1962. In his first ten years at Michigan, Schembechler's teams squared off in a fierce rivalry against Hayes's Buckeyes squads. During that stretch in the Michigan–Ohio State football rivalry, dubbed the "Ten-Year War," Hayes and Schembechler's teams won or shared the Big Ten Conference crown every season and usually each placed in the national rankings. In 1988, Schembechler assumed the role of athletic director at Michigan, succeeding Don Canham, the man who hired him as football coach in 1969. Schembechler retired as head football coach after the 1989 season. His longtime assistants, Gary Moeller and Lloyd Carr, helmed the team for the next 18 years. Schembechler left the University of Michigan in 1990 to take a job as president of Major League Baseball's Detroit Tigers, which he held until 1992. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1993. During his later years, Schembechler remained in Southeast Michigan and hosted a sports radio show. He died in 2006 at the age of 77 on the eve of that year's Michigan–Ohio State football game, a historic No. 1 versus No. 2 showdown. A consummate "coach's coach", Schembechler combined superb technical command of the game with a fiery disposition. Schembechler's Michigan teams were known for their fundamentally sound, physical, and fierce style of play. Under his watch, the Wolverines traditionally featured strong defense, dominating offensive lines, and a power-running attack. In the words of one commentator, Schembechler coached a "remorseless and punishing" brand of football. If he perceived a weakness in the opponent, his teams hammered at it time and time again. Though somewhat combative during games—he was prone to sideline outbursts—he was generally regarded by his peers as having great personal integrity.[citation needed]
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